The pace of Americans signing up for privately administered insurance through President Obama’s health care law slowed down in February, according to a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services, and youth enrollment is well below target levels set before the program’s launch.

Weeks before the health care law’s exchanges launched Oct. 1, an HHS memo projected that 5.7 million individuals would enroll in a plan through one of Obamacare’s exchanges by the end of February. In reality, HHS said Tuesday, just 4.2 million Americans had signed up in the first five months.

HHS still hasn’t disclosed how many Americans who have signed up for a plan through the website have consistently paid their premiums, which is how enrollment is typically measured. Thus, HHS figures could overstate enrollment by around 20 percent to 25 percent.

About 4.2 million people have signed up for health plans on Obamacare exchanges through the end of February, making it unlikely that the Obama administration will hit the estimate of 6 million enrollees by a key deadline at the end of March.

Whatever momentum appeared to be building in January dropped off in February, as the number of sign ups fell below the administration’s expectations.

YES! Control is the issue, not health nor healthcare. Take over the healthcare industry and then tie everything to that control. Cigarettes, Abortions, guns, drugs, etc. Remove these issues from the various legislative processes and dump them all into a healthcare regulatory agency – and generate money for big govt at the same time.

Why would the govt care a flying fig about the health of the citizen, other than to insure the citizen could pay taxes?

Jay Carney tweeted this morning that Prezy’s appearance on “Funny or Die” yesterday generated the largest number of “referrals” to Obamacare.gov. And that means….what? Young people simply clicking onto the Obamacare site from a link to the show?

Actual health care reform would not begin with increasing the total cost of health care, including subsidies to compensate for government debasement of capital and labor. Actual health care reform would address availability and affordability, specifically resources and costs. It would focus on reforming the education system, which has left so many people incapable of caring for themselves. Obamacare is a government revenue program designed to mitigate the imminent threat of hyper-bubble economics, especially in highly financed and subsidized districts.

In left-think, the supply of medical resources (human and otherwise) is quite irrelevant to cost. In fact, if you believe those who are protesting the David Koch bequest to build a hospital wing in NYC, you’d think that contributing to an expansion of medical resources is consistent with being hostile to “affordable health care,” as the protestors claim the Kochs are.

I haven’t seen any Democrats express any concern that the closure of medical facilities and exiting of doctors from the profession as a result of the ACA might — just might — work against the putative aim of making health care affordable and accessible. So either the Dems are all profoundly ignorant and irrational, or they really don’t want to improve health care in any way. Or both.

Wasn’t it just 5 months ago when they were telling us that 5 million cancellations was nothing. Not only were all the policies crap but 5 million was such a small portion of the total people in the US that it was insignificant.

Now 5 million signups by the end of this month is looking like the Holy Grail. (And it is likely those 5 million signups may be closer to 3 million active by the end of June.)